One step purification of corilagin and ellagic acid from Phyllanthus urinaria using high-speed countercurrent chromatography

High-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) has been successfully applied to the preparative separation of corilagin and ellagic acid in one step from the Chinese medicinal plant Phyllanthus urinaria L. by use of direct and successive injections of a crude methanolic extract. Some aspects concerning the practical use of this technique in the described application are considered.     

叶下珠有效部位对血栓形成的影响及其作用机制初探

采用Born方法和改良的Hamburger方法分别测定叶下珠 (Phyllanthusurinaria)含corilagin的有效部位 (代号PUW )在体内外对血小板聚集功能和对血小板与中性粒细胞之间粘附反应的影响 ;应用Myers方法评价PUW灌胃对小鼠尾静脉注射花生四烯酸 (AA)引起猝死的保护作用 ;运用改良的Charl ton方法及陈长勋等方法分别观察PUW灌胃对电刺激大鼠颈动脉血栓形成和下腔静脉血栓形成的影响 ;采用Tomihisa方法 ,观察PUW对大鼠尾尖出血时间的影响。结果显示 ,PUW在体内外对ADP、AA或血小板活化因子 (PAF)诱导的血小板聚集均无明显抑制作用 ;PUW呈浓度依赖性明显阻抑AA激活的血小板与中性粒细胞之间的粘附反应 ,其半数抑制浓度 (IC50 )为 39 7mg/kg。PUW (10、2 0和 4 0mg/kg)灌胃呈剂量依赖性显著减少AA致小鼠死亡的数量 ,明显延长电刺激大鼠颈动脉血栓形成时间 ,减轻大鼠下腔静脉血栓的干、湿重。 2 0mg/kg的PUW对出血时间无明显影响 ,4 0mg/kg的PUW虽延长出血时间 ,但与阿司匹林 (2 0mg/kg)比较 ,出血时间明显缩短 (P <0 0 5 )。本实验结果提示 ,PUW灌胃在多种体内血栓模型中均具有明显的抗血栓形成作用 ,其机制可能与阻抑血小板和中性粒细胞之间的的粘附作用密切相关。     

Corilagin inhibits breast cancer growth via reactive oxygen species‐dependent apoptosis and autophagy

Corilagin is a component of Phyllanthus urinaria extract and has been found of possessing anti‐inflammatory, anti‐oxidative, and anti‐tumour properties in clinic treatments. However, the underlying mechanisms in anti‐cancer particularly of its induction of cell death in human breast cancer remain undefined. Our research found that corilagin‐induced apoptotic and autophagic cell death depending on reactive oxygen species (ROS) in human breast cancer cell, and it occurred in human breast cancer cell (MCF‐7) only comparing with normal cells. The expression of procaspase‐8, procaspase‐3, PARP, Bcl‐2 and procaspase‐9 was down‐regulated while caspase‐8, cleaved PARP, caspase‐9 and Bax were up‐regulated after corilagin treatment, indicating apoptosis mediated by extrinsic and mitochondrial pathways occurred in MCF‐7 cell. Meanwhile, autophagy mediated by suppressing Akt/mTOR/p70S6K pathway was detected with an increase in autophagic vacuoles and LC3‐II conversion. More significantly, inhibition of autophagy by chloroquine diphosphate salt (CQ) remarkably enhanced apoptosis, while the caspase inhibitor z‐VAD‐fmk failed in affecting autophagy, suggesting that corilagin‐induced autophagy functioned as a survival mechanism in MCF‐7 cells. In addition, corilagin induced intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, when reduced by ROS scavenger NAC, apoptosis and autophagy were both down‐regulated. Nevertheless, in SK‐BR3 cell which expressed RIP3, necroptosis inhibitor Nec‐1 could not alleviate cell death induced by corilagin, indicating necroptosis was not triggered. Subcutaneous tumour growth in nude mice was attenuated by corilagin, consisting with the results in vitro. These results imply that corilagin inhibits cancer cell proliferation through inducing apoptosis and autophagy which regulated by ROS release.     

HPLC法测定3种老鹳草药材中没食子酸和柯里拉京的含量

目的：建立老鹳草、野老鹳草、牻牛儿苗中没食子酸、柯里拉京含量测定方法.方法：采用HPLC法,色谱条件：色谱柱为Diamonsil C18 （2）色谱柱（150 mm×4.6 mm,5μm）;流动相为乙腈-0.1％磷酸梯度洗脱;流速为1.0 mL/min;检测波长为274 nm;柱温为25℃.结果：没食子酸和柯里拉京的线性范围分别是：0.2024μg～2.024 0 μg（r =0.999 6）、0.126 0 ～2.520 0μg（r =0.999 2）,平均回收率分别是97.4％（RSD=1.4％）、96.7％（RSD=0.9％）.结论：本法简便、准确、重复性好,可用于老鹳草药材的质量评价.     

叶下珠有效部位的溶栓作用及其对PAI-1和tPA活性的影响

采用改良的Charlton和Tomihisa等方法评价叶下珠植物(Phyllanthus urinaria)含corilagin的水溶性有效部位(代号PUW)对电刺激大鼠颈动脉血栓的溶栓作用;应用发色底物方法测定PUW在体内外对血浆tPA、血浆或血小板释放的PAl-1活性的影响。结果显示,5mg／kg的PUW,其再通率为50％,再栓率为60％;10mg／kg PUW的血管再通率为60％,其再栓率为33．3％,低于2万U／kg尿激酶42．9%的再栓率。再通后1h内,血管开放状态表现为,2万U／kg尿激酶组的血管开放状态与5mg／kg PUW组的相似;10mg／kg PUW组,其持续再通率高于2万U／kg的尿激酶组。PUW在体外或静脉注射均明显降低血浆PAI—1活性,同时提高血浆tPA的活性;PUW静注还明显抑制血小板释放的PA1-1活性。本实验结果提示,PUW静脉注射显著提高闭塞颈动脉的再通率,同时降低再通后颈动脉的再栓率;抑制PAI—1活性,同时提高tPA的活性可能是PUW具有较好溶栓作用的分子机制。